Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed a year ago (TiME, Oct. 18, 1923, Feb. 25, Apr. 21, 1924 et seq.) established a system of granting immigrant visas abroad so that no more immigrants would be turned back after reaching this country because they were in excess of quota. By moving all the other inspections to the source, the aim is to avoid the necessity of sending any immigrants back after they arrive on our shores...
...Tribuna, Rome journal, Senators Tommaso Tittoni, ex-Foreign Minister (1919) and President of the Senate, counseled reduction of Italy's War debts on the score that the U. S. and Britain made "excess profits" out of war materials. These profits, he held, should not be repaid. Concerning the remainder, he advocated nonpayment of interest, extension over a long period of years of capital payments at the rate of exchange at which the debts were incurred...
...intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into excess...
...Certified Public Accountant should come to examine its books, he would find several items marked: "Accounts receivable." By far the largest one, in fact an account receivable larger than any which has ever been known since the Chinese first invented an adding machine, he would find to be in excess of ten billion dollars. As nearly as Secretary Mellon's secretaries can figure, it is $10,556,804,223.40. Accrued interest is almost two billion more, making twelve. This is the amount owed the U.S. by foreign countries for loans and supplies during the War and reconstruction periods...
...nutshell, the problem: 1) A demand for colored labor is far in excess of the supply; 2) the colored, particularly the indigenous Negro, is growing more and more resentful of the high wages paid to the whites and to the protection of the skilled trades; 3) the class of poor whites who cannot find employment is growing larger...